Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Bargain hunting

It was sunny and up to 20*C this afternoon. When you're in the sun it's really warm but the air is cool. About 4:30 or so, after the sun went down the temp. dropped to 7*C. We went into Hemet again today. Diesel was $3.019 at one station, it's $3.069 to $3.159 at other stations around here. We've been getting really good mileage with the truck...saw a bumber sticker once that said, "I may get pour mileage for a car, but I get terriffic mileage for a house!!"

Across from where we fuelled up there was a 99cent store. We first went into one of these at Palmdale so went into this one. It's like a "super" dollar store...they not only have all the ordinary $1 items but they have groceries as well...prepackaged for $0.9999 (all their items are $.9999 or less) 3 heads of Romaine..$.9999, a bag of 3 red or green peppers, a bunch of 10 small bananas, 7 apples....you get the idea. Came out of there with a buggy full of stuff for $19. There was also a store in that mall that had tank tops for 3/$9.99, but I didn't like them and they wouldn't have fit anyway. There's some bargains around but the prices at WalMart, Target, Costco etc seem higher than in Bellingham...also the tax down here is about 9% and all pop, water, beer etc have a $.05 deposit on the bottles. Took a different route back to the trailer and found a fruit stand with some interesting stuff...and we didn't even get lost!!!

Hope everyone is well. I've heard some people can't leave a comment, so if you can't leave a comment...e-mail me. Have a great day!

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